ikdaylight already. how did that even happen? we just stayed up all night. do you wanna watch more? my vacation day starts now. [music] -so intense. -oh my god, so good. we'll just watch the first episode of season two. -that's all i wanna see. -one more season. [music] i don't remember the last time i've gone to the bathroom. my legs are, like, asleep. it literally feels like i have a bladder infection, but i'm just gonna get antibiotics after the next episode. [music] [cnn original series theme] i am officially running for president of the united states. he doesn't care what people think. [donald] when you're a star, you can do anything. when they go low, you go high. cnn can report that hillary clinton has called donald trump to concede the race. let's begin this morning with president trump's executive order temporarily banning immigration

from seven countries. we're building that wall. the justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign. president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. president trump becoming the fourth american president to face the prospect of impeachment. it feels as if, culturally, we're in a cold civil war. [theme music]

[donald] when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. when trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, he was not seen as a serious candidate. he, himself, confided to some of his advisors. essentially, what's the downside? this is a great marketing exercise. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. i was prepared to just watch it for a couple of minutes, and then turn it off. but he's got me sucked in.

we all got sucked in. -i am officially running -[crowd cheering] for president of the united states and we are going to make our country great again. [ted] our country is in a crisis point. liberty is under assault. the gop had changed pretty dramatically by 2016. you now had several generations of republicans who were no longer interested in playing by the traditional rules of politics. the washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms, and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped. there was a close alliance between fox television and conservative social media sites, and republicans on capitol hill, so the party was very different. [donald] we have stupid people running our country, and people are tired of it. [jeremy] by the time donald trump comes down that escalator, he has been learning how to talk to republican voters

about their deepest fears and their grievances. he's been doing it on talk radio. he's been doing it on fox. [donald] obamacare was forced down everyone's throat, and a lot of people just don't wanna take it. he had a morning call-in spot each week on fox & friends. [donald] it is the home of donald trump, when you think about it. i know. you are here more than abby and stevey here combined. this was a crucial opportunity for trump to expose himself to the republican primary electorate. [donald] we have to go in strong on isis, and we have to be vicious. that's what guides his political sense. what are people rewarding him for? what are they applauding at? he is saying what the voters want to hear. he doesn't care what people think. he tells the truth. obviously, trump is a threat. -yeah. -because he doesn't fit in the same box all the other republicans are in. something happened where a large number of people decided there was an establishment out there that had let people down. "they're sending our jobs away. they're letting people come in the country

who shouldn't be here." [woman] trump says, "i'm gonna make america great again." and people want to believe something good. they'll do just about anything for a job. [van] and here comes trump to say, "there is an elite establishment that thinks you're suckers, and i'm gonna stick up for you." [susan] for me, a key moment was the very first fox news debate in the summer of 2015. trump had been rising in the polls at this point, but was still seen as sort of a blow-hard and a buffoon. [bret] is there anyone on stage who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the republican party? [chris] at one point, he said, "look, i'm not a politician. i don't talk like a politician." and i didn't quite know what that meant, but as all of the other candidates started talking, i realized, they did sound like politicians and donald trump didn't. i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. we had over 23 million people watching every one of our debates. yeah, we had a disruptor,

but it turned out that a majority of all the people that identified as republicans in this country liked what that disruptor was saying. [wolf] donald trump wins the south carolina republican presidential primary. a very, very impressive win for him. [david] i took him seriously pretty soon, when he started wiping out one republican contender after another. and he did it because of what seemed to be abnormal in politics, the way he spoke, the insults. he was like an insult comic. rubio, and i call him... all right. i call him little marco, little marco. he assigned them high school-like nicknames. lying ted, like, he's a liar. people were eating it up and nobody knew how to respond. and when they did respond, they were, quote, "going down to his level." donald trump is a jerk. you cannot insult your way to the presidency. you know what they say about men with small hands.

you can't trust them. you can't trust them. and then the next thing you knew, they were gone. i humbly accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. [tim] so not only did the rules change, but they changed only for one person, donald trump. somehow, he had created a new political environment in which only he could thrive. everything is a game. it's like he's living in his own celebrity reality tv program. [julian] the follow action starts and donald trump, he seemed to many observers, so far away from where mainstream america was. they couldn't imagine that he could defeat clinton. what do you have to lose? donald trump could speak to these working class folks and hillary clinton was always seen as the washington establishment figure for good and bad. you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables,

the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. are there some people in the country that are hateful racists and that's deplorable? yes. is it smart politics to lump a giant group and call them deplorables while you're speaking at some fancy benefit dinner? no. that's terrible politics. [hena] donald trump used those remarks to call her an out-of-touch elitist who can't relate to the common man. welcome to all of you deplorables. [julian] by october of 2016, this general election is almost feeling like a reality show. [pete] barely two-and-a-half months after a cyber attack was revealed on the democratic national committee, the obama administration laid the blame at the feet of russia's president, vladimir putin, with a strongly worded statement. the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence say the attacks are "intended to interfere with the us election process" and that, quote, "only russia's senior-most officials

could've authorized these activities." the intelligence agencies announce that the dnc was hacked and that russia was responsible. [donald] and when you're a star, they let you do it. -you can do anything. -[billy] whatever you want. [donald] grab them by the [bleep]. [amie] on the same day, you have this access hollywood tape being released. and that tape was the thing that gained traction for the next few days. [major] it's a new headache for trump as the latest cbs news poll found 72% of voters believe clinton cares more about the needs and problems of women. when the access hollywood tape came out, i was ready to cut bait. but the fact that this was in his past and it's not about voting for a pastor. it's about a presidential candidate that will represent the views that are important to republicans. [susan] it was a moment in american politics when a candidate did and said something absolutely unacceptable, his political party wavered, and then it decided to stick with him. there is nobody, nobody, that has more respect for women

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[music] there is apparently a news conference of donald trump along with four women taking place here in st. louis. in the second debate, trump pulls a stunt and he invites four women who had accused bill clinton of different forms of sexual assault and harassment. what they're saying is almost irrelevant because it is the picture that donald trump and his campaign clearly want to get out here. [dana] most candidates would be, frankly, too ashamed to do that.

not trump. he was fine with it. he wanted to get into her head. bill clinton was abusive to women. hillary clinton attacked those same women. behind the scenes, hillary clinton is left in this weird position of, "how do i explain this?" her aides are essentially advising her to play it cool. that is hard for her, but she does it effectively. [hillary] when i hear something like that, i am reminded of what my friend, michelle obama, advised us all. when they go low, you go high. it was baked in that donald trump was a reality star who had three wives, who did all kinds of things that ended up in the tabloids. they knew that. the fact that he took that to the next level, we were all shocked that he did that in the moment. but in retrospect, i don't know why we were shocked. back in the 1970s, i worked for the children's defense fund and i was taking on discrimination against african-american kids in schools. he was getting sued by the justice department

for racial discrimination in his apartment buildings. clinton was tougher in the debates than trump's opponents in the republican side. and she won those three debates by conventional measure, easily. the nastiest presidential campaign in our lifetimes has finally come to an end. more than four out of five voters told us they were disgusted by it. on election day, people in the clinton world were very excited because everything was all basically on the presumption that hillary clinton would win the election. if pennsylvania and michigan go as they have for democrats before, and she wins virginia and north carolina, it's looking increasingly likely that she's on her way. [man] i believe that she will win. hillary's campaign, they were energized. they thought they were gonna win. hillary clinton has the edge in virginia and also in the state of north carolina. but as the night went on, you could feel the temperature drop in the room. [norah] the state of florida, a must-win for donald trump.

and, wow, the margin is razor-thin. if you're a clinton supporter, you're popping an anti-anxiety pill right now. [amie] you have her aides talking to people on the ground, and they're saying, "it's not looking good here," and they can't believe what's happening. [mike] you get a more urban republican area like jacksonville, trump's doing horribly. but you go north of tampa to the exurbs, he is breaking the meter like numbers we haven't seen before. the quantity of votes that were coming from these more rural areas, it was a signal that, "wow, he's doing a lot better than people realize." [scott] breaking news, donald trump will be the winner in florida. [bob] donald trump is now 48 votes from having the presidency. let's look at that electoral college map. the trump campaign understood where they needed to win. it was we gotta pick off these states that democrats had assumed were theirs. [john] now trump is beginning to color

some of those swing states red. [john] the deeper you got into the night, the numbers we had all relied on had misjudged what was gonna happen in what we now think of as trump country. [john] it's just amazing to watch these. in pennsylvania now, as i look at it, it's about 2,000 votes that separates the two of them. -[man] out of five million. -out of five million. [man] for those of you who sat at home, thinking, "my vote doesn't count," wrong again. all those people who showed up in all those places over the course of the year, that we all said, "ah, you know, that's just trump. he turns out crowds," will those people show up on election day? they showed up on election day. several states are too close to call. so we're not gonna have anything more to say tonight. i was sitting on set, frantically texting sources, and getting a text from a source who was with donald trump, saying, "hillary clinton just called. she conceded." cnn can report that hillary clinton has called donald trump to concede the race.

i've just received a call from secretary clinton. she congratulated us. it's about us. donald trump lost the popular vote, but he was able to knock three bricks off of the blue wall, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, by a combined total of 80,000 votes. and in a nation of 330 million people, those votes were the difference between president hillary clinton and president donald trump. congratulations, mr. president. [van] you go to an inauguration to be uplifted and to be reminded that we're one country. and it isn't what happened. the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country, this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. [susan] this was consistent with the message that he had been conveying

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[music] let's begin this morning with president trump's executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven countries and suspending the united states refugee program. one of the first decisions was on a so-called muslim ban, which we felt was the manifestation of our fears of what a trump administration would look like. [kelly] president trump's executive order delivers on his campaign promise to confront what he calls radical islamic terrorism. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. the effect was that people who had lawful visas to come into the united states from muslim-majority countries, all of sudden, could not get back in. we are people. we are not the government. we are not doing nothing. [juliette] on a friday, he issues the order, and by friday night, our american airports are in chaos. here at jfk, the protests

looks to have grown to about 1,000 people while officials try to figure out just what the rules are. [peter] amid the chaos, president trump is defending his actions. "to be clear, this is not a muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting. this is not about religion. this is about terror and keeping our country safe." [ronald] what trump realized was that the disaffected, often non-college, less affluent constituency that was becoming the core of the republican coalition, what they wanted was a government that would take on all the forces in society that they thought was threatening them. it used to be, when people would immigrate to america, they wanted the american dream. they didn't want to speak english and they wanted to assimilate. now we have people that are coming here who want to kill us. the muslim travel ban was a solution in search of a problem that didn't really exist. isis never sent anybody into the united states to carry out an attack. the real problem was people who are american citizens already living here getting radicalized by isis propaganda and carrying out attacks in the name of isis. what we came to understand in the early days

of the trump administration is that chaos is acceptable for them, and we would see that throughout the entire administration. [donald] i am calling on congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. donald trump could not have cared less about obamacare, but he knew that it was something that a lot of republicans cared about. the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. so he basically went to the congressional republicans and said, "i really don't know what i'm doing here, so i'm gonna let you run my legislative agenda." we are united on repeal, but we are divided on replacement. [dana] there was a bill that, finally, was worked on very carefully by a lot of republicans to replace obamacare with a different healthcare system. they voted in the house, where they had the majority. but in the senate, it wasn't as easy. [nancy] alaska's lisa murkowski and maine's susan collins were the first to buck their party.

that left arizona's john mccain a wild card ever since he said this on tuesday. it's a shell of a bill right now. we all know that. [ezekial] this wasn't a bill that was well thought out and that, i think, very much offended john mccain. he was a man who was not inclined to follow party lines just to follow party lines. and he was sick with cancer and came back to vote. the question now is whether he is going to take that maverick label and wear it proudly as he potentially takes this down. [don] breaking news right now. the republicans' obamacare repeal failed in the senate tonight, the vote 49 to 51. [david] bill came on the floor in the middle of the night. there was no chance to review it. sixteen million people would lose their healthcare. [john] john mccain hated trump. thought he was a person of no character. and trump, of course, had committed the ultimate offense when he made the comment about mccain is a pow. he's a war hero. he's a war hero 'cause he was captured.

i like people that weren't captured, okay? i hate to tell you. it was like he went out on the senate floor and did this, and what he was really doing was this. [don] john mccain was asked when he was leaving, he said, "why did you vote no?" and he said, "because it was the right thing to do." that was actually the end of repeal and replace, but donald trump was able to have the administration deliver a major tax cut by the end of 2017. something this profound could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership. mr. president, thank you for getting us over the finish line. [susan] had he not done that, i think you would've seen the republican party resist trump more, at least at the level of congress. [richard] sad news to share with you this hour. arizona senator john mccain has died. mccain had been fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer for more than one year. when john mccain died, a big part of the gop legacy that stood up to donald trump passed away. [chuck] it's a sad moment, i think, for a lot of americans,

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because the firing of comey creates a crisis. the justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign, the department naming former fbi chief robert mueller as special counsel. [chris] robert mueller, he was seen as the g-man, the g-man. if there was ever anybody that you didn't want on your trail, it was robert mueller. [gloria] mueller remains silent, instead letting his work speak for itself. the mueller investigation, in short, was examining two things. one was possible conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian officials, and the other was possible obstruction of justice of that probe itself by president donald trump. and these ended up as two sort of parallel, but intertwined tracks. fake news and the russian witch hunt. we got a whole big combination. there were whole days when he would not get any work done,

and his staff would have him holed up in the private dining room off the oval office, ranting and raving about the latest incremental development in the mueller investigation, tweeting about it, watching television. it became the white whale of the trump presidency. [lester] in just a few moments, president trump and president putin of russia will hold a joint news conference following their bilateral meetings. [hallie] the president talked a little bit about what he wanted to discuss with vladimir putin prior to their meeting, specifically, for example, nuclear. he talked about defense, other issues, but here's the most important thing, lester. it's what he did not mention, and that is russian election interference. that is going to be, likely, the first question that these leaders get asked here in this room. trump never wanted to admit that the russians had interfered because it cast that cloud over the legitimacy of his win in the election. of course, he wanted everyone to think he won big. and whenever the issue of russian interference came up, he wanted to push away. [jonathan] would you now, with the whole world watching, denounce what happened in 2016

and would you want him to never do it again? i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. trump chose to believe putin's denial. it's mystify... it's hard to understand. trump's eagerness to sell out america proves the russians must have something personally, politically, or financially, on president trump. did putin have something on trump? i don't think we know that, but did putin interfere in the election in trump's favor? that we do know. and to deny that russia acted in trump's favor, that's just foolishness. have we ever had a president who stood next to a dictator and refused to take sides with the us government? it's really extraordinary. where people got themselves believing that there was going to be more information uncovered by mueller is that it doesn't take a conspiracy

for people to have the same interests, and vladimir putin's interest in seeing hillary beaten was parallel to donald trump's. they didn't necessarily have to be working together to want the same outcome. today, i am keeping another promise to the american people by nominating judge neil gorsuch of the united states supreme court to be of the united states supreme court. [abby[ neil gorsuch was president trump's first supreme court nominee, and he was taking a supreme court position that mitch mcconnell has basically held open at the end of the obama administration for the next president. the justices that i'm going to appoint will be pro-life. they will have a conservative bent. donald trump was married three times. linked to porn stars. not the first logical choice for southern evangelicals. so the most important thing trump did to try to cement the allegiance of the cultural conservative vanguard

of the republican party was to signal who he would pick for the supreme court. -so help me god. -congratulations. in both cases, they each got what they wanted. the conservative christian groups got the conservative supreme court. and donald trump got their votes to win the election. today, the president began interviewing possible nominees for the supreme court seat that will become open when justice anthony kennedy retires. president trump here nominates brett kavanaugh. [chris] brett kavanaugh was supposed to replace anthony kennedy. and that's a big deal because kennedy had always been the key swing vote. so this was really gonna change the balance of the court. i thank president trump for the honor of this nomination. the hearings seemed to be going just fine, and it doesn't look like there's any way for the democrats to stop it. [john] we're about to hear some of the most high-stakes congressional testimony in decades. the senate judiciary committee is about to question christine blasey ford. suddenly, we find out that there were allegations that he had sexually assaulted christine blasey ford

when he was in high school, which he denied. the details about that night that bring me here today are the ones i will never forget. [chris] donald trump was watching it and was very shaken by her testimony, thought it was pretty credible. and the word went back from the white house to the people up on capitol hill with brett kavanaugh. if you wanna save your nomination, you're gonna have to fight for it. [brett] senator, let me explain high school. i was number one in the class, freshman... -[patrick] and i thought... -no, no, no. -i'm gonna talk. -[chuck] let him answer. i'm gonna talk about my high school record, you're gonna sit here and mock me. [ronald] what was striking about it was how quickly the republicans on the committee pivoted from anxiety and concern, "could we defend this to lindsey graham delivering this "i will not be silent" speech. what you wanna do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. you said that.

the way kavanaugh was saved was very much along the same lines as the way trump dealt with all of the accusations that came at him. "any accusation against me is really an attempt by the democrats to impose their far left politics. is kavanaugh gonna be confirmed? i think he will be. since trump really has been elected, i've never seen more unity amongst republicans and conservatives than right now. [chip] kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed saturday and immediately sworn in as the newest supreme court justice. [ronald] it became incredibly revealing of the strategies of the parties at this moment. the way justice kavanaugh was treated has become a big factor in the midterms. have you seen what's gone on with the polls? but you seem to be saying that she lied. you know what? i'm not gonna get into it because we won, it doesn't matter, we won.

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[david] women, they went for the democrats by 20 points. that is just huge. and the independent voters have completely bailed on the president. trump's positions on gender really had energized a whole new wave of suburban women voters. [jessica] alexandria ocasio-cortez will be the youngest woman ever elected to congress. 2018 also saw the first muslim women elected to serve in the house, democrats rashida tlaib of michigan and ilhan omar of minnesota. [abby] although republicans were able to hold on to a senate majority, his party really ended up being routed by the democrats. today is more than about democrats and republicans. it's about restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the trump administration. [julian] once democrats have control of the house, speaker nancy pelosi emerges as the chief opponent of the president. there's a big difference between the president and me.

he has very thin skin and i have very thick skin. nancy pelosi is donald trump's worst nightmare. she knew so much more about legislating, washington in general. that gave her an upper hand in a way 'cause he didn't really know how to deal with her. [lester] fireworks erupting between president trump and democratic leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, a fight over funding the border wall and the president now threatening a government shutdown. trump's biggest applause line during the campaign was "i'm gonna build a wall." when in trouble, pull the immigration lever because it always worked for him. we're building that wall. we're building the wall. -don't worry. -[abby] trump had tried to put funding for the wall in all kinds of bills. he tried to put it in a tax bill. he tried to put it in negotiations throughout the first year of his presidency. and by the time he got to that midterm period, he was really at a crossroads. if he didn't get the money now, he was never going to get it. and pelosi was willing to push back publicly.

the wall is a part of border security. you can't have very good border security without the wall, no. they were having those disagreements in public in part because trump never wanted to be seen as losing to nancy pelosi. we're approaching 48 hours until a possible government shutdown. and despite movement in congress to kick the can down the road, essentially, there's still no spending deal in place. democrats and republicans had actually come to a deal that would've funded border security, that would've given him a little bit of money for the wall. [nancy] congressional negotiators had already settled on $1.6 billion for border security next year. but the president wants $5 billion more, specifically for a border wall. [abby] but ultimately, it wasn't enough for him, and so he basically held the government hostage. it's day 22 with no end in sight, now the longest shutdown ever in us history. eight-hundred-thousand federal workers have started the weekend without a paycheck. [man] just get together and get something done.

at this point, i just don't care. i gotta put food in my kid's mouth. you can call it the schumer or the pelosi or the trump shutdown, doesn't make any difference to me. just words. of course, the president doesn't appreciate the role of public policy in the lives of the american people. he was willing to put the government in a precarious situation when it came to his campaign promise. it was a calculated risk that didn't pay off. tough week to be donald trump. the defeat of his signature campaign promise, trump announces, by extension, an end to the nation's longest government shutdown, providing no new money for a border wall. [kevin] the president made four different offers. it was speaker pelosi who said, "i wouldn't talk about anything." and the president finally said, "this is too much." [abby] he dragged it out until, at the end of the day, the deal that he had to land to end the shutdown was a way worse deal than he would've gotten if he had just caved at the beginning. basically, he gets absolutely nothing out of this other than a lesson about messing with nancy pelosi.

[john] you can't go broke betting on nancy pelosi, in general, but in the era of donald trump there was no more sure thing, was that, in a fight between donald trump and nancy pelosi, you knew who was gonna be strutting around the ring at the end. [lester] tonight, robert mueller has completed his investigation and submitted his report. [gayle] it cost more than $25 million and led to criminal charges for a number of people connected to mr. trump plus 25 russians and 3 russian companies. [chris] when robert mueller finished his two-year report, he released it to the then attorney general, william barr. [pete] now the huge question, how much of it will he reveal given the keen interest from congress and the public? [chris] on the one hand, mueller was investigating whether in fact there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians to interfere in the 2016 campaign to trump's advantage and hillary clinton's disadvantage. "the special counsel did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government

in these efforts." the second part of the investigation was whether or not there had been an obstruction of justice, whether trump had tried to interfere with the mueller investigation. [major] the special counsel said, "while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" there were more than 10 instances that the mueller prosecutors found of donald trump actively seeking as president to shut down their investigation. [major] mueller left it to barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to decide the obstruction question. the two white house appointees decided the evidence is not sufficient to establish that the president obstructed justice. [maggie] mueller laid out these cases as possible obstruction, and he had made clear that he was going to abide by a justice department legal understanding that a sitting president can't be quiet. this, i imagine, is a good day for the resident. he must be feeling relatively good right now. he is, and he's probably feeling relatively good about his selection of bill barr as his attorney general. [chris] to say that bill barr put the best face

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for a second term... [fiona] in the summer of 2019, president trump was already thinking about his re-election. and he had surmised that the most likely contender was going to be the former vice president, joe biden. joe biden is not playing with a full deck. this is not somebody you can have as your president. he was latching on to anything that he absolutely could to try to use it to get re-elected, and he was trying to hobble the competition. word of a whistleblower inside the trump administration. the issue, a phone call between the president and a foreign leader and what president trump may have promised. [kristen] the washington post first reporting that an intelligence official was so bothered by a promise president trump made to a former leader, that he filed a formal complaint. it became clear that this call involved trump and the recently installed president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, and that it had to do with american military aid to ukraine, which had been at war with russia.

but the pressure was on trump to release the transcript of the call. that call was perfect. as we all learned, when the decision was taken to release the transcript, it was anything but perfect. in fact, what trump was doing was asking president volodymyr zelensky to do him a personal political favor. [peter] the whistleblower complained that, according to the washington post , president trump pressured the ukrainian president to investigate hunter biden. hunter biden was indeed on the board of a ukrainian company for no apparent reason other than he was the son of a politician. instead of defending an ally, ukraine, which is in the fight of its life, the president was holding back that aid until the ukrainians would investigate the biden family. [robin] president trump basically wanted to politically blackmail president zelensky. it was one of the crassest diplomatic overtures by any president, and, of course, led to his impeachment. the president said, "there's a lot of talk about biden's son that biden stopped the prosecution,

and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great." having read the transcript and then having taken part in the impeachment hearings, i realized this wasn't about ukraine at all. this was actually about trying to keep donald trump in power. and he had no intention of going anywhere. democrats believe they've made their case, believe they will soon impeach the president of the united states. article 1 is adopted. the 45th president of the united states becoming only the third leader since the founding of this nation to be formally charged by the full house of representatives, and he now faces trial in the us senate. [susan] the votes were in the house to impeach president trump. this was an effort to make the case that this misconduct was so serious, we have to do what we can, but no one went into that thinking president trump would be removed from office. [tim] the house decided that this kind of behavior was a threat to our constitutional order. and they, therefore, had a constitutional responsibility to do exactly what they did today. it'll be up to the senate to decide if president trump should be removed.

he's not gonna be removed. he's not gonna be removed. possible violence...not that i'm condoning violence. there'll be a lot of mad americans. -[man] mr. young. -[man 2] not guilty. [norah] the president of the united states will remain in office. the republicans didn't support this other than mitt romney, who is the single republican who said, "this is worthy of impeachment" and he was allowed to continue with his presidency. [chuck] it sadly feels like a predictable next step in this escalation of a partisan war to the point where, at times, it feels as if, culturally, we're in a cold civil war. the first impeachment ended up being a preview of the second impeachment. what we should've learned from the first one is that the president is willing to do anything to maintain power. that is his guiding ideology. [mitch] they thought this was a great idea and, at least, for the short term, it has been a colossal political mistake.

[bill] it's the republican party going along with trump that really makes trump such an important phenomenon. even if you didn't like a lot of what trump said and you were a little worried about even some of it, but the fact that the republicans were getting a lot of what they wanted, you got your tax cuts and the justices on the supreme court. that is really one of the under, i'd say, estimated parts of 2017 to 2020. it was trump's republican party. thank you more than anything else for putting up with the neverending bullshit you have to go through. [ronald] people kept looking for the moment when republicans would break from trump, but there were millions of people who voted for him and continued to support him because they thought he cared what happened to them. it may have been a marriage of convenience, but it was a pretty stable marriage all throughout his presidency. [donald] america is the place where anything can happen.

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